hungrily
adv/ˈhʌŋɡɹɪli/ · /ˈhʌŋɡɹəli/
Etymology Inherited from Middle English hungryly, equivalent to hungry + -ly.
1
In a hungry way or manner; with hunger.
- For at the last shall the thunder, fleeing to escape from the doom of the gods, roar horribly among the Worlds; and Time, the hound of the gods, shall bay hungrily at his masters because he is lean with age.1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 92:
- Nungi was too hungrily cross to be respectful.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 263:
- Synonyms
- heartily